Machine for manufacturing felt boots



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L. RUEL. MACHINE. FOR MANUFACTURING FELT BOOTS SHOES, &0. No. 808,929.

Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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L.RUEL.N MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FELT BOOTS, SHOES, &c.

No. 308,929. v Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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L. RUEL.

MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING FELT BOOTS, SHOES, &0. No. 308,929.

Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,929, dated December 9, 188

Application filed August 9, 1884. (No model.) Patcnicdjn Canada May 30, 1884, 110.19.475.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURENT RUEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Merrimac, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Mannfacturing Felt Boots, Shoes, or Stockings, of which the followingis a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved machine. Fig. 2is an end elevation; Fig. 3,

a top plan view; Fig. 4., an end elevation, the reverse of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5, a vertical trans verse section taken on line a; in Fig. 8.

Like letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates more especially to means for holding and manipulating the former or cone on which the sliver or felting material is deposited in the manufacture of felt boots, shoes, or stockings; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set fort-h and claimed, by which a more effective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the invention will be readily understood by all. conversantwith such matters from the followin explana tion.

In the drawings, A represents the bed or floor of the machine; B, the table, and C the main driving-shaft. The shaft is journaled horizontally in the standards D, and carries the driving-gear E, upon which are formed the spiral earns a a, the object of which will be seen further on. The table Bis pivoted at its rear end to the hub F, projecting upwardly from the bed A, aud is provided at its forward end with two small supporting-wheels, b b, resting on the bed. A shaft, r. carrying the gear G andbevelgears H H, is mounted inthe standards I on the table 13, near its pivoted end.

J J are two posts standing on the table 13, supporting and having their heads connected by the girt K.

its outer or free end, there is a headstock or bed, M, its upper side being parallel withthe table 13, and provided with parallel ways, in which the roller-carriagc N travels from side to side of the machine.

Journalcd longitudinally in the upper part of the carriage N are the two conical rollers O 0. These rollers are preferably arranged on the same horizontal plane,and parallel to each other. They are constructed substantially alike, tapering gradually from their ends to a considerably smaller diameter at their centors. as shown in Figs 3 and 4.

P is a shaft jourualed in the lower part of the carriage N, and parallel with the rollers O. lft has fitted movably on it the spurpinion 0, which, while it is free to move endwisc on the shaft, is held to turn with it by the spline f, and is held in its central position relative to the head-stock M by the double girt is a spur-pinion keyed or otherwise rigidly fixed on the shaft 1?. It meshes into the two pinions h 71 which are fixed on the ends of the rollers O, and thereby gives to both these rollcrs the same directed motion.

Q is a counter-shaft journaled in the headstock M, and carrying the spurgear j, by means of which motion is conveyed from the gear-wheel G to the spur-pinion 0.

Attached to the rear side of the carriage N there is a rack, 7., extending the entire length of the carriage, and into which the spur-pinions (1- mesh alternately, thus giving to the carriage a reciprocating motion. Thelever Z, in which the heads of the spindles L are journaled, is pivoted at m centrally or midway between the two spindles, so that by swinging the lever Z horizontally one of the spur-pinions (1 may be thrown into gear with the rack 7r, while by the same act the other gear (I on the opposite side of the pivotal point is drawn out of gear with the rack 7..

Vertically under the pivotal point 00, and to the under side of the table B, is pivoted the ,counteracting-lcver m, and to its ends are attached the lower ends of the upright levers a n, which are fulcrumed on the posts J, the upper ends of the levers a holding against the ends of the lever Z outside of the posts. The leverl may be made to work automatically by means of suitable mechanism, or by hand. A reciprocal swinging motion from its pivotal attachment to the hub F is effected, by means of the two horns o 0, formed on the table B and facing the wheel E on opposite sides of it. The spiral cams a a, formed alternately and on opposite sides of the wheel E, come alternately against one or the other of the horns 0, and give to the table B a reciprocal motion about its pivot-hub F.

The cone or former P, on which the sliver or felting material is deposited, is made in two sections, each section being provided with a foot-piece, p, and leg-piece, q, the leg-pieces being united on the line .2, and the feet or footpieces turned in opposite directions, as best seen in Figs. 2 and 4, in order to balance the cone and enable it to be manipulated in a better manner. The taper of the leg-pieces of the cone is designed to correspond with the taper of the rollers 0, but in an opposite direction, the cone being largest and the rollers smallest at the center, so that when the cone is placed on the rollers, as shown in Fig. 8, it willbein perfect contact therewith the entire length of the rollers, or from the ankles of the cone to the center .2, the cone being longer than the rollers and its feet projecting over the same, as shown in Fig. 2.

In the use of my improvement the machine is placed in a convenient position to receive the sliver or hat of felting material from the card or other source of supply, and the cone or former placed in position on the rollers, one end of the sliver of felt being wound around the cone or passed over it downwardly between it and the outer roller, 0, in such a manner as to be fed. onto the 'cone properly when the machine is started up.

From the foregoing description it will be evident that the spiral cams a may be so constructed, and the proportions of the actuatinggears may be so proportioned and arranged that as the table 13 swings to the left the carriage N with its rollers 0 will be moved to the right, and also that the speed of the carand interlaced that the completed fabric will possess the greatest amount of strength attainable from the material of the sliver. The sliver of felting is pressed on the overhanging feet of the cone by the flexible rollers r,which are held by the jointed arms 8 8, attached to the rock-shaft B. This rock-shaft is held in supports 6, attached to the carriage.

to is a holding-arm fixed to the rock-shaft, and by means of which the rollers 0' may be held to bear on the desired part of the feet of the cone by the pin 11. I

I claim as my invention 1. In a machine formaking felt boots, shoes, or stockings, the driving-gear E,provided with the spiral cams a a, and supported from the bed or floor A by the standards D, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for making felt boots, shoes, or stockings, the table B, pivoted to the fixed hub F, and provided with the horns 0 0,through which a horizontal swinging motion isimparted to the table B by the revolving spiral cams a a on the driving-gear E, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for making felt boots, shoes, or stockings, the upright spindles LL, having fixed on them the bevel-pinions c and spurpinions e, and having their head or top ends journaled in the centrally-pivoted lever Z, substantially as shown, for the purpose specified.

Signed at Merrimac this 27th day of June, 1864.

LAURENT RUEL.

In presence of- H. P. CUMMINGS, R. R. SORENSON. 

